Category Archives: Bodhisattva way

Attaining Awakening in Nirvana: 涅槃で覚醒を得る

      Attaining Awakening in Nirvana   Good morning!   Today is December 8, when Gotama became Buddha, Awakened One. All over the world Zen centers, temples, and monasteries celebrate it as Jōdōe, Attaining the Way Assembly, after seven … Continue reading

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Buddha Bodhisattva Aspiration Action

  Good morning!   After a long spell of dry hot days we at last had compassionate rain last evening. So, this morning we have a clear and calm Sunday sit in sesshin with fresh greenery and birds’ singing. Sesshin … Continue reading

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Buddhist Council Event: Walk for Feed the Hungry

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Holy Host Home

Good evening!   The equinox is called higan (彼岸), the other shore, and it is compared to equanimity, nirvana, holy oneness. In the holy oneness, all things are one – our minds and worlds, holy host and home, the triple magnanimous, mature, and mudita (joyful) minds, and their holy truth, goodness, and beauty.   So, the truth of the equinox spring sphere has melted even the heavy spring snow greatly and quickly. The goodness of the Bodhisattva’s beneficial mind has made a passage through the still lingering snow. The beauty of the incense burner ash has arisen joy and even beatitude.   The holy host and home come from the Bodhisattva way – host and guest in holy oneness, unlike emperor and minister, much less master and slave, separated. They became the cultivation and verification of the culture of all the “ways” (dō: 道) – tea way, garden way, calligraphy way, etc.   The tea way’s four mottoes of harmony, respect, purity, and serenity (wa-kei-sei-jaku: 和敬清寂) come from the Bodhisattvas’ Brahma-vihāra, or limitlessness of friendship, compassion, joy, and equanimity – the exquisite mind of nirvana storing the right dharma eye (shōbōgenzō-nehanmyōshin: 正法眼蔵涅槃妙心).   This solid and serene sitting and sustained steadfast sesshin are the cultivation and verification of holy host and home, actualizing and appreciating unconditioned peace and unsurpassed awakening, like the spring sphere meeting and melting spring snow for free and full function.   3/25/13   Homey Holy Host Home, picture taken by Erin when snowflakes started … Continue reading

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